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A LOVER OF LIGHT AMONG LUMINARIES : Dilip Kumar Roy When Vishnupriya, in her trance, observes Sri Chaitanya embracing his assailants, she understands the greatness of her husband and also realizes her folly in claiming possession of him. After the moments of trance she says:
"And so I failed to see That the one thou gavest me I could not claim As my sole possession for all time on earth. I see now by Thy Grace which opens my eyes That he was vouchsafed to me but for a spell, A magic interlude, which I shall cherish, Across the sad, bleak years that lie before me, As the greatest boon conferred on me by life. I see now I received far more than I Could ever hope to claim-far less retain For my own puny world which does not count The lonely oyster nurses the pearl of pearls In the blind void of her heart; even so, The pearl of his love was ensconced in mine. But how could he let it be housed for ever
Where it had never belonged ?"19
Vishnupriya's vision bears the testimony of her constant inner contact with Sri Chaitanya. When Sri Chaitanya arrives at his own house, very sympathetically, he tries to show to Vishnupriya the superiority of the Divine Love to the human love. He explains how human love, which, generally, is a form of selfish desires, is illusory. Hence, he says he surrendered all human attachments at the feet of Sri Krishna :
"The message of true love which, in its essence, Is a message of surrender unbargaining Which whispers in the heart:"Give all you have And are to Krishna and never in return Ask even for the meed of his answering Love." But, alas, it sounds like madness to the wise, And so I sing now only for the crazy Whom I adore today since none but they Will respond to Folly's message which declares (Reversing the prudent values of sanity): “None but the fool who squanders all he counts As the most precious of this earth-life's boons
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